A company is planning to deploy a new SAP NetWeaver ABAP system on AWS with an Oracle database that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance uses a Linux-based operating system. The company ne

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Options

• AGeneral Purpose SSD (gp3) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes
• BAmazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard-Iinfrequent Access (Standard-IA) storage
• CAmazon FSx for Windows File Server
• DProvisioned IOPS SSD (io2) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes

• A
  82% (14)
• B
  6% (1)
• C
  12% (2)

Explanation

Amazon EBS gp3 volumes (General Purpose SSD, 3rd generation) decouple IOPS and throughput from storage capacity. With gp3, you can provision up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s throughput independently of the volume size, starting from as little as 1 GiB. This provides the flexibility to adjust IOPS without resizing storage. Option D (io2) also allows independent IOPS provisioning but is significantly more expensive and is designed for workloads requiring more than 16,000 IOPS or higher durability SLAs - making it less cost-effective for this use case. Option B (EFS Standard-IA) is a network file system designed for infrequently accessed shared files, unsuitable as primary Oracle database block storage. Option C (FSx for Windows File Server) is Windows-only and incompatible with the Linux-based EC2 instance.

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